"When I discovered Woody Allen movies, I was like 16 years old and I remember realizing, 'This is why people like watching movies! Because they can reflect a culture that resembles the way you think.' It was just like one of those moments when you just get it.

"Those movies and the characters in those movies perfectly reflect the way that I view life, and they're really entertaining and psychologically probing at the same time-- which is not easy to achieve. All of those things make them really interesting to me.